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Title: Annual report of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
Subjects: Sewerage Water-supply
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter printing co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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hem, and, when thebeds become filled, the water cannot rise higher than within a safedistance of the top of the embankments, as it will then overflow intoan 8-inch vitrified pipe drain which discharges into an open ditchbelow the beds. It was not deemed necessary to provide for filteringall the water during heavy rainfalls, and this overflow will take e;of all water exceeding the capacity of the beds, which is ample duringaverage conditions. It will not be necessary to operate the beds dur-ing the winter as the houses are not then occupied. Through thecentre and 5 feet below the surface of each bed a 4-inch vitrified pipeunderdrain is laid, parallel with the main feeder. These underdrainsempty into the open ditch at the same point as the 8-inch overflowdrain. The above work was done by day-labor forces. This plant was first put into operation on September 16, and hasbeen in continual use ever since. The work was begun on Angus _ and finished on September 21.at a total cost of $541.13.
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< No. 57.) AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 97 Miscellaneous Work. For the purpose of preventing objectionable drainage from enter-ing the brooks running into the Wachnsett Reservoir, 3 cesspoolsand 1 cemented vault have been constructed to take care of barn,sink and privy drainage in the town of Sterling. On the Quinepoxet River, immediately above the circular dam atthe head waters of the Wachusett Reservoir, the intervale land, whichis very low, and is covered with a stand of heavy timber, is floodedin times of heavy flows. All the dead wood, brush, undesirable trees,etc., were cut and burned over an area of 14 acres extending upstreamabout 4,000 feet, to prevent the same from being washed into thereservoir. At Dorrs Mill, on the Quinepoxet River, about 1% miles aboveOakdale, the stone walls of the mill have been razed, the cellar holesof the mill and tenement houses given a general cleaning up, and thehead of the canal has been permanently closed by rock and gravelfilling. At Warfields Mill

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